In order to demonstrate the quality and range of information on FretHub, we offer many free guitar lessons in each level, to suit guitar players at the beginner level, right through to advanced players.

In the early days before FretHub was born, Nick stumbled upon a Logic plugin that sounds a bit Gibbonsy. Barely able to contain his excitement, he knocked up a track in the style of La Grange by ZZ Top and with a fairly primitive camera filmed himself soloing along. Since then we have received many requests to teach this random Gibbonsesque solo so here is the original solo and backing track below. The following lessons should help you to play along and provide you with some tricks to make a similar noise to this one! Have fun…..

Over the following lessons, Nick and Bobby break down the theory and applications of the Modal System step by step, giving you plenty of demo solos to inspire you, encouraging you to play along with the 7 backing tracks and come up with your own ideas. Later, Bobby and Nick show you how to incorporate pentatonic scales into your modal playing, giving you even more possibilities when soloing.

In this first lesson, Bobby begins by demonstrating the solo we’re going to learn note-for-note (4 times around the 12 bar Blues progression). We go on to discuss different eras of blues players, with some advice on essential listening.

In this first lesson, Bobby shows us the scales of C major and A minor in first position. Be sure to practice these scales both ascending and descending and use alternate picking throughout. This will help you to build up speed and dexterity in both hands.

In this first lesson, we look at the movable minor pentatonic scale. In this example, we’re going to be working in the key of A minor. The minor pentatonic scale is arguably the most common scale in lead guitar. There are countless licks and riffs we can play once we’ve mastered this scale. We’re also going to practice some fast hammer-on and pull-off trills using this scale in order to build up dexterity and strength in our fingers.

Before we learn anything on the guitar, it’s important that you know the anatomy of the instrument. Here, in our first video lesson, Bobby and Nick show you the main types of electric and acoustic guitars and give you a basic run down of what everything’s called and what its function is.

Now that we know the names of the strings, it’s important that you learn how to keep your guitar in tune. In this video, Bobby shows you how to alter the pitch of the open strings using the guitar’s machineheads. As explained in this lesson, it’s recommended that you keep the “Tuning Notes” video open in a separate tab when studying with Frethub. This will give you a reference for when you feel your guitar needs re-tuning.

Incidentally, Bobby is a left-handed guitarist. To make his lessons easier for most people to follow, we decided to horizontally flip his videos when we edited them. However, we left this lesson un-flipped in order to avoid confusion when Bobby goes on to demonstrate several electronic guitar tuners and apps later in the video.

Another song that will improve both your chord changes and your picking hand technique is the REM classic “Everybody Hurts”. In this lesson, Nick shows us how to play the intro, verse and chorus sections of this great song.

Nick shows us a cool way of extending the range of the E minor pentatonic scale up the neck, allowing us to play long runs from the open E String, all the way up to the 12th fret on the high E string and beyond…

Another song that uses power chords to great effect is the 2004 U2 classic “Vertigo”. In this lesson, Bobby shows us the main riff from the song. This is a great riff to practice since it will improve the speed at which we change from one power chord to the next.

In this lesson, Bobby shows you the main riff, verse and chorus parts from Green Day’s “American Idiot”. As well as featuring a great riff, this song serves as a very useful exercise to practice quick changes between power chords.

In this clip, Nick improvises a solo over a backing track, based around the G major pentatonic scale. This is a taster for the next 2 lessons in which we will learn the scale shapes and techniques he is using.

In this lesson, Nick shows us how to play the Neil Young classic “Heart Of Gold”. There are more chord changes in this song than in previous songs we’ve learned, but you should find it fairly easy if you’ve practiced your first positon chords.

I’m really enjoying your course, nice clear lessons at exactly the right pace. I’ve progressed more in a month than I did faffing about on my own for several years. I may be available for bookings soon! Thanks, Dave.

~ Dave Perris – FretHub member

I have truly enjoyed your videos. They are modern and cover all the right topics. Most of the other sites, their lessons are so repetitive or they make it boring to learn. I look forward to spending many long coffee drinking, fun nights of learning and playing the guitar.